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6-letter words (2 found)

PIGNUS,SPUING,

5-letter words (4 found)

PINGS,PUNGS,SUING,USING,

4-letter words (25 found)

GINS,GIPS,GNUS,GUNS,GUPS,INGS,NIPS,NUGS,PIGS,PING,PINS,PUGS,PUNG,PUNS,SIGN,SING,SNIG,SNIP,SNUG,SPIN,SPUG,SPUN,SUNG,SUNI,UNIS,

3-letter words (32 found)

GIN,GIP,GIS,GNU,GUN,GUP,GUS,ING,INS,NIP,NIS,NUG,NUS,PIG,PIN,PIS,PIU,PSI,PUG,PUN,PUS,SIG,SIN,SIP,SUG,SUI,SUN,SUP,UGS,UNI,UNS,UPS,

2-letter words (11 found)

GI,GU,IN,IS,NU,PI,SI,UG,UN,UP,US,

You can make 74 words from pignus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pignus

pignus

Etymology

From Latin pignus.

Noun

pignus (plural pignora)

  1. (law, obsolete, Ancient Rome) A pledge or pawn.

Related terms

Anagrams

  • gins up, pungis, sign up, signup, sing up, spuing

Latin

Etymology

Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- or *peyḱ-; others refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”); its meaning perhaps being "something pinned/fixed/retained (as pledge)".

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiɡ.nus/, [ˈpɪŋnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpiɲ.ɲus/, [ˈpiɲːus]

Noun

pignus n (genitive pignoris); third declension

  1. pledge, mortgage
    Synonyms: vōtum, fīdūcia
  2. hostage
  3. wager, stake

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • pignerō

Descendants

  • → Albanian: peng
  • → English: pignus
  • Italian: pegno
  • Old Occitan: penh
  • Piedmontese: pegn
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pennor
    • Portuguese: penhor
  • Sicilian: pignu
  • Old Spanish: peños; pendra (< *pignora)
    • Spanish: peño; prenda
      • → Portuguese: prenda

References

  • “pignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pignus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pignus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pignus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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